User blog comment:CrazyCombo/Why in the name of hell../@comment-1512913-20120706154424/@comment-976055-20120706190753

For rebuttal~

1) Like you said, it could have been because Nero was the first of the Sparda bloodline to come in contact with it. It may have less to do with Vergil, and more to do with Nero being part of Sparda's bloodline.

2) Nero's DT is really different from Dante's and Vergil's because Nero just doesn't seem to have full control of his magical powers. Nero doesn't even change, and his DT seems to just draw out the soul in Yamato (a Devil Arm), and since Yamato is so closely tied to Vergil, it stood to reason that it'd be Vergil's Devil form that we would see drawn out into view. After all, a Devil Arm seems to house the soul of its previous owner.

3) That's tough because from what I remember, that never made it into the actual game, which makes it cut material, which, more often than not, isn't considered canon. Even then the "more power" line was in reference to either one of two things; either a whisper from the demon that infected Nero's arm, or it was a whisper from Yamato. It would seem the intention may have been that Vergil's soul is what infected Nero, considering the design of the Devil Bringer, but alas, what could have been was left on the cutting room floor.

4) This comes back to number 1, with it possibly meaning more that Nero is part of the Sparda bloodline, and less with any inclination that Vergil is Nero's father

All in all, there are no direct hints, because those four (obviously) can be interpreted in different ways, and to me, they're a bit too ambiguous.

As for it being a game and not about story - this is entirely true. Especially with anything Action oriented, be it a game or a movie. The basic premise of an action game/movie story is to justify the action therein. Sometimes you get lucky and an action movie has a dramatic story, like an old John Woo flick like The Killer, but otherwise it's all just there to give way for action, action, action. Even every single DMC game follows the small formula of "Someone wants to open the Demon Realm, Dante goes to a place to stop it, fights lots of demons, big and small, and looks cool while he stops them."

Devil May Cry 3 was the lucky one of the franchise thus far because it dealt with origins, however, even then, much of that game's cutscenes was Dante doing cool shit, and only a small percentage was actually narrative that explained Dante and Vergil's past. They had a real chance with DMC4 when they introduced Nero, but instead the same thing happened. In fact, there was no past for Nero, it was mostly about him coming to grips with his power and being able to use it to protect Kyrie and "save the world" with Dante's help. Very little is divulged about Nero's past, and much of what is ever mentioned about Nero is again ambiguous. All we know for sure is that Nero was an orphan, grew up with Credo and Kyrie, and got injured protecting Kyrie which infected his arm and got him the Devil Bringer - and somehow he is related to the Sparda bloodline, as all of Sparda's descendants have white hair.

In the end Elveonora, it's possible you are seeing more than what's there because you want there to be. Unfortunately, this means you're operating on circular logic, trying to conclude that concepts point to your one truth, instead of addressing those concepts individually and seeing what truth lies in them.

Either way, you say there are plenty of hints in the game, and I want to hear about what you see. Even though I know the game like the back of my hand, I don't have time to replay through all of DMC4, so I'd rather you just save us all the trouble and tell us what you see so we can sift through it and see what truths there are.

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Also - keep in mind that DmC is by a completely different studio than DMC. Capcom has had numerous departments work on different games of the same franchise, like Mega Man. Don't think they can't have Ninja Theory continue a DmC series while they jump back to tell more in the original DMC series. Have faith that Capcom is wising up (they sorta are).